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2018 Winter Olympics: Opening Ceremony Live Updates

Troy Mann
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12 February, 2018, 15:04

The countries are cooperating for a series of conciliatory measures, including having their athletes parade together for the first time in 11 years at the opening ceremony last night. But privately, officials said, Pence expressed concern to Moon about his more conciliatory tone toward North Korea.

"We are not going to comment on the issue".

Meanwhile, in South Korea, there was the realization of the divide between an older generation who may still dream of reconciliation and younger people who are more cynical.

The other North Korean athletes participating in the games are three cross-country skiers, two short-track speed skaters, a pair of figure skaters and 12 female hockey players who helped form the Koreas' first-ever joint Olympic team with South Korean players.

North and South Korean leaders swapped warm handshakes and smiles at Friday's opening ceremony, enabling the International Olympic Committee to present the Games as enablers of peace and take the media spotlight away from a Russian doping scandal that has plagued it for years.

Contrarily, North Korea has been raising the pitch on its missile development game plan. "An unauthorized individual came down the ramp onto the stage. and then that same individual was on stage later in the program", Tirico said in the broadcast.

North Korea's cheerleaders leading cheers before the women's preliminary round ice hockey match between Switzerland and the Unified Korean team at the Kwandong Hockey Centre in Gangneung, South Korea, Feb. 10, 2018.

The Winter Olympics typically see a bit more ratings vacillation than its summer counterpart.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Jong Un were not among those present. That display of unity comes after sustained overtures made by South Korea's president Moon Jae-in.

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A 214-metre exclusion zone was put in place by the Met Police and the Royal Navy were called in to make the area safe. German Air Forces during "Blitz" in September 1940 and May 1941 dropped thousands of bombs on London.

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Mr Zuma's race for the presidency was in its last stretch when prosecutors dropped the charges against him over the arms deal. Some ruling party members have pushed for ANC leaders to demand that Zuma, who has denied any wrongdoing, resign.

Airbus said 113 of the jets at 18 airlines use the Pratt geared turbofan engine, but not all are affected. Not all of the engines are affected by the issue, though the spokesperson declined to say how many.

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